Installation agony

[Robert Nuzum]

I  have an eMac with an external firewire drive. I am trying to install 
ydl on this hard drive. When installing graphically I get the 
documented error "no  screens found" and a parse error on line 71 of 
/tmp/xF86 configtest. I have read some suggestions but cannot find this 
file to change the refresh rate. When I try to install in text mode I  
run up  against the hell of disk partitioning which fails on automatic 
and also  using disk druid according to the manual. I previously 
partitioned the disk using Disk Utility into two partitions and 
reinstalled osx on the second partitions as suggested in the manual. I  
tried to create a osx boot sector and it won't succeed with Disk Druid.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I don't have the purchased 
support.
Thanks, Bob